98. Taking my narrowboat into and through Middlewich on the Trent and Mersey canal
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2017
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Taking the narrowboat up to and through Middlewich and out the other side.
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I can't thank you enough David for your series of videos. I have lived in Australia for the past 57 years but most of my childhood was spent in Middlewich and I remember the horse drawn narrow-boats during the 1940's, diesel was just coming to the fore. I started my apprenticeship as a boilermaker at Winnington ICI just across the river from the Anderton boat lift. Before leaving for Australia I lived in Wimboldsley just a couple of fields from the Middlewich arm of the Shropshire Union canal. Than you so much for enabling me to relive such fond memories.
Thank you very much for sharing them; lovely to hear. Cheers
After a day at the Division of Motor Vehicles, I came home to find this video. Thank You....Just what I needed. Your videos are giving me great ideas for my next trip to the UK!!! Thumbs up to your haberdasher!!
Glad to hear it :-)
I've been watching your videos for last couple weeks and I've got to say they're awesome , thank you
Thank you very much!
I love that you give shout outs to every boattuber you see
Most of them ;-)
Another lovely vlog. Having watched all of yours and thoroughly enjoying, them, I've also been devouring other narrowboat youtuber vlogs, such as London Boat Girl, Robbie Cumming, and The Narrowboat Experience, as well as a few others. You have turned me into an addict. Looking forward to next weeks masterpiece.
Great, they're all splendid channels. Cheers.
as always it is interesting riding with you.
A masked youth on a bike.
I seem to see him everywhere nowadays.
For a lout he sure is busy.
Great vid again.
:-)
Thanks for another fun-filled, exciting, and adventurous trip through the magical mystery tour...😊👌
Enjoy your slumber; sweet dreams
AQUEDUUUCT!!! I adore them!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching you trip up through SOT and onwards. I wish I was cruising the cut myself, sadly it will only ever be a dream for me so thank you for sharing the experience with me. All the best.
Very nice series. I am watching them all. Love to see more of after you stop for the day and how life in the boat is.
Somehow I had missed this vlog while binging on them. Lucky find and delightful as usual. Thank you for making them.
Thanks once again, David for an entertaining episode. 😃👍👏👏👏
...and a very tranquil vlog too CTC, thank you very much for another ultra professional presentation
Glad you liked it!
Nobody can Film Narrowboat Videos this Quality,Absolutely Mavellous x
Thank you :-)
The view you shot in the video is so therapeutic to watch. It's so calm I'm seriously considering to rent a boat and cruise for months! ❤️
Enjoyable as always ...thank you.
Cheers
Your dress is the other thing that makes you more down to earth. Things like the Sun Screen, Fleece, Hat ETC. You represent the better side of the viewers impression of Narrowboat life.
The other down to earth is you also include you mistakes which makes you much more believable and I might add enjoyable. Thanks Stay Safe
right in the middle of Middlewich. Perfect!
Thanks David, really good to see footage of where I was cruising about a year ago, before I started vlogging of course. Middlewich is quite safe for mooring, the only trouble I had was with gangs of youths playing Pokemon Go!!
Cheers Robbie
Hay Robbie just asking when is your next video coming out
I’m impressed at the amount of locks your undertaking during this trip
Thanks again David another great Vlog. Really look forward to them so keep them coming..
A fair few more still to come :-)
Yet another wonderful video with beautiful scenery. Thank you.
Glad you liked it
Rain on the canals looks beautiful
I always love your vlogs! Thanks for letting us join you on your journeys!
Ah, cheers Jenny. Hope your snakes are behaving :-)
I enjoyed the different scenery, love your videos, always entertaining. Thank you.
Great! Cheers
It is good to see that you were honest enough to include your little bump.
You should see the ones I leave out ;-)
Lovely video again David. Know the area you are in very well as I was born and bred around here. You can't be far from the Weaver Navigation - perhaps we'll se it tomorrow.
best holiday ever i had on the canals, roll on September when i will be sailing aboard Odessey once again! loving your short films and always look forward to the next!
September should be a great time to boat; have fun!
Trent and Mersey is my local canal. I enjoy all your vlogs but especially the ones in this area. The Harecastle tunnel one you did was really interesting as I've wanted to go through there for years and never have so far
Hey :) I just love your videos! They bringing me down after an exhausting day and let me dream to my next journeys :) Cheers from Germany, David
Very kind, thank you
Another great video, and I do look forward to your videos...
Thanks!
Another great vid, David.🇦🇺👍🍷
Nice vlog,thanks 👏👏😁👍
kickin hat m8 =D live in the desert for awhile and you'll appreciate rainy days. It's why it's so green and lovely there :)
Great work I follow you and your explotes , Keep up the great work, waiting for your next vlog.Good sailing
Thanks William. Another one in a week :-)
I've kind of binged myself on your videos, they put most of whats on daytime television to shame. It's funny a few months ago I'd have never given narrow boating a second glance, though you're clearly far away from it now, I can say the lock in Peterborough would give you a bit of a scare, it being on the river nene, it's right next door to a weir/waterfall. Though I don't recommend mooring along it at the weekends, not if you don't like the noises of steam trains trundling past your boat.
Always been a railway man myself, always will be. But I can certainly see the leisure and fun there is in narrow boating. Thumbs up!
Thank you; glad you like the videos.
a reasonably peaceful ride....thanks, David😏👍
Cheers Julie
A pleasant journey. Thanks for taking us along.
The shops and facilities in town looked very inviting.
Glad to see that you got your boat free from being stuck.
No Tunnels is a blessing.
Happy Camping
:-)
Love the vlog David, its good to see just how a solo operator manages with all the locks and other obsticals above and below the water.
Cheers Darran
I like the association to salt and Wich, you learn something new every day, thank you for another great vlog.
Cheers :-)
At last! You’re coming to my neck of the woods - Northwich!
You are getting better and better at making my wife and I want to join the Narrowboat life David.... Great job...
Haha, be careful now .. before you know it ...
After a five mile 'wander' along most of Limehouse Cut and a chunk of the Regents Canal this evening this is just what I needed. Nice to see someone moving even if it is 'up north' ;)
Enjoyed the video as always and look forward to the next one.
I'm quite surprised to find myself so far north too!
Another great video 😀👍 that chippy is definitely worth a visit next time
Absolutely!
Good flog. I read all johns books as a child, nice to be reminded of him
Thanks Alan
Thanks for the reply David, I of course look forward to living vicariously through your experiences on the next adventure heading in that direction , have fun, be safe!!!
I'll try! Cheers
So there are ruffians about! Great video sir!
Love your blog. I live in Alaska, USA, and feel like I'm getting a tour of rural England. Seems very civilized and organized.
Parts of it, yes! Glad you enjoy the videos.
There are good days and bad days on a narrow boat this day was a lucky day. my heart sank as you were stuck on the lip. a well deserved cuppa and fish & chips after a day like that :)
I didn't even get the fish and chips because by the time I moored, I was too far away :-(
Think ill have to take a trip down that stretch on my bike at the weekend now ive had a look at your video... once ive worked my way around the harecastle tunnel.
Excellent as usual David :) It's amazing how much of that part of the system around Middlewich I remember even though I haven't been on it for over 20 years!
And I bet it hasn't changed much?!
It hasn't! So much is just as I remember it!
Hi, I just wanted to let you know you have me hooked on narrow boats. I’ve found your videos on Amazon and those are great also. I’ve actually started looking at narrow boat hotel cruises. Looking forward to the rest of your vlogs.
Thank you! Welcome along.
Great video, so have things been busier now that summer is here... looks crowded, but they are all parked, was this during the weekdays. Great work and thank you for taking me along for the ride!!! Cheers and, as always God bless
Bear in mind the vlogs are (currently) about five weeks behind "real time" so this was filmed at the end of May (ish) as I recall. Quieter!
Oh ok, actually good idea for security reasons....Cheers
Congratulations for passing the 18k subscribers, very impressed.
I have? Excellent. Here's to 20k... ;-)
Lovely video! I have noticed that a lot of British murder mysteries are set around canals and locks - your commentary has reinforced that mysterious air! :)
Mere fiction! They're quite civilised places really :-)
Wikipedia is wonderful. "The earliest known way of producing salt was of course in shallow pans on the sea-shore, at the bottom of a shoal bay, called in Norse and Early English a wick or wich". The inland salt areas were, most likely, bay's that became dried up. Great learning David. Thanks for the vid.
I did not know that! Excellent info. Cheers
Great vlog as usual David
Thanks!
Frankly speaking you are the best narrator. among other narrowboat vlogers. English is very clean.
Thank you.
Tip top...! Thank you once again...
Your lead-ins and lead offs (intro and "outro") are becoming cleaner and more refined... good work...
Thank you but how odd - I haven't changed the intro and outro...!!
It is subtle... and it is in addition to the initial "chugging in" into and the "greened lock" image with credits outro...
for instance this episode's wrap-up had several seconds of footage from the bow cam, with no narration, as you pulled in... it had the effect of floating to a stop and mooring up along with you... I know that this is reading into it it things not intended, but usually you wrap up with a few words whilst pulling up, and then cut to the greened lock... it was some good shots and they served you well...
you are a very good producer and it shows... you production skills and the time you put into this (which I am sure is in the 40+ hrs. a week range) make for a pleasant and enjoyable vlog...
you must forgive me sir for my nuanced viewing habits... I am constantly driving my wife crazy, explaining how the DOP in a movie took the shots, and how the editor clips scenes...
Ah, I see. Well those differences are a bit random, depending on the footage and how I feel. Your poor wife ;-)
This video was a nice and relaxing break on the otherwise busy Canada Day. Thank you once again.
Good to hear it. What do you do on Canada Day? (to celebrate etc)
While the others are racing about I like to stay home and enjoy the silence that living in Canada allows me. I have a 77 year old Deluxe Ford that is nearing completion after absorbing over $100k. This is what takes up my quiet time. I did put up my Canadian flag and I left the garage door ajar to keep watch on the flag lest someone try to take the flag for their own purposes.
We barbecued hamburgers for an early supper.
I am back in the shop today and I noticed that I am getting low on Tim Horton's dark roast coffee, so I am off to buy some ground coffee at the newly renovated Tim Horton's. I drive a Dodge 4X4 pickup with a Cummins Diesel because this is better for my needs.
Take care and I look forward to the next video.
Sounds like a great day. $100k is a lot!!
Love it as always!!!
Thanks
CruisingTheCut I don't know why I haven't already but I know the rest of my paramedic friends here across the pond might enjoy the tranquility of your channel. Sharing now!!!
Superstar - thank you!
Awesome video David,. it's a good thing to stay in shape . you ever know. when you are going get caught on something or get stuck in the mud . ..... Cheers David,.
Every day is another interesting and unexpected little challenge!
Another great vlog David, I have learned a lot from your videos and have duly subscribed. By the way - I saw you yesterday approaching Braunston just as I was leaving, I was on the little blue thirty footer. Gave you a wave. Starstruck!
Haha, "starstruck" indeed!!! Thanks for waving :-)
Next up: Triffids in Telford :). Another very enjoyable episode David, thank you. Love Wyndham BTW.
That story scared the whatsits out of me.... :-)
great stuff, Stu.:-)
Ta
Such cute cygnets!
Ahh, this steering problem explains the bow-thrusters you previously mentioned a while ago, available on some boats, it all makes sense now!!
Hello David!
New subscriber here viewing from Oakley NorCal in the East Bay Area living along the Delta.
I have as of today caught up on all of your videos and looking forward to number #100.
Cheers and clear canals!
Thank you and welcome!
Superb David, I have been waiting for someone to go through Middlewich, as this is where we used to rent our narrow boat (s) from Anderson boats just on the left there as you navigated that tricky left turn (I remember that one). It will be very interesting to see what the canal reveals in the opposite direction, as we always went the other way towards the town of wrenbury, Nantwhich and the likes. Middlewich is a nice English town as we had a chance to mingle with the locals after dark at the local watering hole, that being a pub called the Vault, thanks again and safe journey hi ho silver from Florida USA :).
Hi Carl, thank you. Next video is up to Anderton, then back, then across the Middlewich branch so those should bring back some memories. Cheers
David. So here I am, a fan of your vlogs, waiting last week on the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union for you to pass by as per you plans on Vlog No. 75 (so I can wave or even have a cuppa with you) only to find from your last vlog that you have either missed the turning at Middlewich branch or you have changed your plans and gone straight up the Trent and Mersey. I guess from your organised personality and lifestyle it is the latter or I have missed somewhere along the vlogs that you have changed you route. Perhaps Anderson Boat Lift was too good an engineering marvel to miss, you being so close. Ah well..Keep up the good work.
Hi. Sorry! You probably need to know the vlogs are several weeks delayed from "real time" so I did the Middlewich and Shroppie ages ago. As to where I went, watch the next vlog :-)
Okay I can answer this one I am 12 miles west of Detroit Michigan USA any English town with witch in the name was a Roman town at one time that collected salt ding ding ding we have a winner great Channel brother thank you for letting me share in your adventure
Yet again FAB Vlog.
Middlewich is only up the Road from Us lol.
Hopefully will bump into You one day but not as in hit Your Boat with Ours (When We Have One of Course) lol xxx
Haha, no I hope not!
Nice one David. I've just been to Aintree to check on the slow progress to my boat. They are looking forward to a visit from you some time but please don't go and distract them until they finish mine!
Did they say that??!! I did chat briefly with them on Twitter about it but we haven't lined anything up specifically yet. Perhaps I'll go and "have a go" at welding on yours :-)
Nice one David yet another enjoyable and informative vlog. Funny how that pound seem to have lost a bit of water as there seemed to be a good flow of water coming in as seen from the your bow camera when turning left fo that last lock.
There's an overflow to the next lock, which I mention when coming back in a future vlog.
Great interesting video Cheers
Thanks
Dank U voor deze video :-) 👍
I feel this show is on the verge of big success, both home and world wide. When I said it the first time, about how the next step is big TV production, and a second or third boat for the TV crew and cooks and lock help. I did not read that you were a previous television worker. I just sensed a level of professionalism. I compared this to "Travels in Europe with Rick Steves" with very much respect. And instantly detected the talent. You are like the Rick Steves of the British canals. Very good at capturing the mechanics of the system like the piston of the boat lift, and the gates to the lift. Very general interest; a lot of people will like this. Very well produced. Books are due for you, travel guides, pubs will give you free food for the exposure (this has local appeal popularity as well as world wide potential for tourism from you directly) your own brand of Narrowboat? signed windlass ess of special branded type. the sky is the limit, i truly feel. You are very intelligent and funny. and I love all the British terms to try and solve, and you give us americans some insight somtimes. So proper and british to watch as well. americans love classic british shows, very charming and great camera presence. really good. stuff. a big hit. cant stop watching.,
Thank you. I like the idea of the Cruising The Cut windlass :-)
oh yah! special design for more leverage, heavy duty metal, special signature grip that spins for speed, quality gold plated(special edition), and laser etched with your signature before plating(regular comes chrome plated), comes in a special protective bag... personalized maps for profit, books, TV specials. the sky is the limit, this is really exciting, you are so witty and interesting to watch. very entertaining. A new quality Cruising the Cut Windless.
You did well to move on beyond Middlewich, in May we were moored by the playground and were attacked and a window smashed during daylight.
Very fitting that Lock 70 near Middlewich is called Rump Lock.....and you are using your backside on the lock arms...Heh heh!! cheers from NZ
brilliant, as usual. ROD UK
Ta
Nice one David.👍
Ta
Another "nice" vlog. Nice and gentle. We did moor at the spot where you went shopping and there was a nasty industrial fridge thing behind that fence which kept me awake. Best moorings were just after the Big lock. Looking forward to your Anderton lift video.
The Lift is next!
Good oh. Hope to be off on Tuesday. Warwick, Brum then the Shroppie to Chester. Hope to see you somewhere!
David, after watching you on your trad stern in the wind and rain I started leaning more to semi trads or cruisers becuase of the pram hoods, that was until I saw this very neet set up. Unfortunately there is only the one photo of the hood up so I have no idea how easily and neety it folds however it is currenlty with ABNB so worth a look.
I have enjoyed your videos very much, thanks for your work. The day after my lottery win gets up, I shall return triumphant to my homeland and go narrow boat shopping, looks like a marvelous way to spend a year or three.
Aren't we all waiting on that elusive lottery win?!! Good luck.
Just over the River Done, and those of us in California envy you that rain.
Bit dry, are you?
Today, while visiting family, I sat in a coffee shop (yes, sorry, I digressed to coffee from tea today) and looked out over a river while a "requisite" pair of swans reminded me that I must check once home for a new episode of CtC. I was not disappointed. P.S. Another soul now regularly watches you cruise your cut on a regular
basis. I must be the evangelist of vicarious narrow-boating by now.
Did the swans hiss loudly at you? They're so angry all the time!
CruisingTheCut, indeed they did utter a sound; only a most Canadian very slight kind of hiss, hardly noticeable and with a smile, eh. 😉
No two locks are the same it seems. Would certainly keep me on my toes! ... A wee story David.. This morning my phone pinged with a notification from RUclips telling me there was a new CtC video uploaded. So I started moving toward the tv room as the family asked "where are you off to" (yes nosey types aren't they?) and I replied "narrowboat video time". They sighed. What do they know? I thought. Don't worry David, I can manage their rolling eyes and mocking grins. And thanks for another great vid. Always seem to be holding my breath when you don't get the mooring you originally planned. Suspenseful ;)
Hahaha, love it (but baffled that they don't eagerly run to the TV as well)
Interesting to see your 'small pound grounding'. I've been reading an old boater's guide to handling and the like (aimed at old working boats) in which it recommends not mooring on the landing before filling locks but rather to put the nose up to the gate and leave it there in the deeper water while you fill.
I'd never thought of that problem before but they clearly knew what they were talking about. Glad you managed to re-float without too much bother!
I'd like to do that but I suppose I'd need to tie the bow to the lock gate instead of the usual centreline/bollard thing. Next time...
Well, you certainly have me wanting fish and chips, and with no good option. Thanks for the update. I always enjoy. FWIW, I vote for not cluttering the canals (or skies) with any sort of RC toy. You do NOT need to include drone video in order to hold my interest.
Haha, thanks. I've no plans to do so for all sorts of reasons,
Maybe that's what the dry dock is for, emergency repairs from getting caught on the ledge! Haha
Wondeful as always! Thumbs up!! We enjoy the comment on your page as well... Good people here... : )
Thank you Dave :-)
Almost 100 vlogs! Good job let's keep on for another thousand! :)
If I reach 1000, I'll drink a bucket of engine oil
that will be entertaining.
I know this part of the system so well and it was where our boat was built almost 30 years ago.
Excellent!
Soooo, are you suggesting that the mysterious silver object from the novel was a narrowboat? Curiouser and curiouser! Another excellent vlog, thanks David.
Alien narrowboat. They were just cruisers looking for somewhere to moor!
That 90 deg left turn must be an even bigger problem for longer boats. Another CTC classic vlog.
Yup. I'd hate to do it in a 70-footer!
I used to plaster houses for TaylorWoodrow and Wimpey (Among others) in the 70's/80's. To see they've now joined forces? .... (Well .... let's just say it's a bit like Bonnie & Clyde have reformed ;-)
Looks like you have as much trouble trying to find suitable moorings as we in Reading do trying to find 'any' parking spaces .... (A small world ain't it??)
But a very pleasant and informative ride-along Vlog .... Cheers.
If I'd turned onto the Middlewich there'd have been loads or mooring but I didn't discover that until I came back! Cheers
4:02 Very good Chippy. I've eaten from there a few times.
I love the term Chippy sadly they are just boring Fish & Chips or Takeaway's here
Don't worry about the bottom plate. If that is the only time it contacts terra firma in your trip you will have got off lightly.
With 'blocked' selfish moorings or even at boatyards it is permissable to moor alongside another boat of similar length to gain bank access. Boatyards don't mind if you are shopping there and selfish moorers hardly object as long as you are 'gentle'.
Enjoying your trip more now as you come into my 'home' territory.
Alas, it's not the first time it's contacted the ground! I'm sure it is fine though, it just makes an awful noise when it scrapes on anything. There was no width to double-moor at the boatyard, it would block the lock exit else I'd have done so!
Wow, I hope the bottom of your boat is okay. Those swans and their babies are cute.
I hope it's OK too!